Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 May 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 25 May 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Quality Assurance (QA)
West London > Hounslow
6 months to
25 May 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 18 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - +32
Contract jobs citing QA 22 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 8.12% 5.92% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 56.41% 58.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 0
Hounslow median daily rate £413 £480 -
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -14.06% - -
West London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Hounslow median hourly rate £23.00 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +31.43% - -
West London median hourly rate £46.50 £66.25 -
% change year-on-year -29.81% - -

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hounslow
Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 14.39% 10.06% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 16
Hounslow median daily rate £475 £480 £440
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -1.04% +9.09% +3.53%
10th Percentile £381 £200 £339
90th Percentile £560 £512 £531
West London median daily rate £450 £430 £420
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Hounslow median hourly rate £23.00 £17.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +31.43% -36.94% +131.25%
10th Percentile £21.50 £16.25 £22.43
90th Percentile £24.50 £18.75 £32.08
West London median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -34.21% +68.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

Job postings citing QA as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Hounslow.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hounslow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing QA in Hounslow.

Contractor daily rate trend for QA in Hounslow

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing QA in Hounslow over the 6 months to 25 May 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for QA in Hounslow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA in Hounslow.

Contractor hourly rate trend for QA in Hounslow

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Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 25 May 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Isleworth - 11 £540 - 2
Chiswick - 6 £388 -
Brentford +1 3 £413 -6.25% 3
Feltham +1 2 £125 -
QA
West London

For the 6 months to 25 May 2018, IT contractor jobs citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hounslow region with a requirement for QA.

1 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) High Availability
3 10 (45.45%) User Stories
3 10 (45.45%) Open Source
3 10 (45.45%) Mockito
3 10 (45.45%) Cucumber
3 10 (45.45%) BDD
3 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
3 10 (45.45%) TDD
3 10 (45.45%) Spring
3 10 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (45.45%) Kanban
3 10 (45.45%) Java
3 10 (45.45%) JUnit
4 9 (40.91%) Shell Script
4 9 (40.91%) IntelliJ
4 9 (40.91%) SQL
4 9 (40.91%) Unix
4 9 (40.91%) Linux
4 9 (40.91%) Games
4 9 (40.91%) Groovy
4 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 9 (40.91%) Domain-Driven Design
4 9 (40.91%) RESTful
4 9 (40.91%) Scala
4 9 (40.91%) Grails
4 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Hounslow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.64%) CMS
2 3 (13.64%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Akamai
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 9 (40.91%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Cucumber
1 10 (45.45%) JUnit
1 10 (45.45%) Mockito
2 9 (40.91%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.55%) Gatling
3 1 (4.55%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 9 (40.91%) Games
2 3 (13.64%) Marketing
2 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (9.09%) Publishing
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Agile Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Agile Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Drupal Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Validation Consultant
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Systems Validation Consultant
6 2 (9.09%) Manual Tester
6 2 (9.09%) Marketing Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Drupal Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Applications Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Junior
7 1 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
2 9 (40.91%) Dropwizard
2 9 (40.91%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (40.91%) Grails
2 9 (40.91%) RESTful
3 3 (13.64%) CSS
3 3 (13.64%) CSS3
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) HTML5
3 3 (13.64%) jQuery
3 3 (13.64%) LAMP
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Sensu
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Over-the-Top Content
2 2 (9.09%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
1 9 (40.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 11 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (45.45%) BDD
3 10 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) High Availability
3 10 (45.45%) Kanban
3 10 (45.45%) Open Source
3 10 (45.45%) TDD
3 10 (45.45%) User Stories
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (40.91%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (40.91%) Domain-Driven Design
4 9 (40.91%) Microservices
4 9 (40.91%) Pair Programming
4 9 (40.91%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Bash Shell
2 9 (40.91%) Groovy
2 9 (40.91%) Kotlin
2 9 (40.91%) Scala
2 9 (40.91%) Shell Script
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 3 (13.64%) GMP
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Grafana
1 9 (40.91%) Kibana
1 9 (40.91%) logstash
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) AppDynamics
1 9 (40.91%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Facebook
2 2 (9.09%) Twitter